Mailchimp for WooCommerce

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Join the 17 million customers who use Mailchimp, the world’s largest marketing automation platform, to develop their e-commerce marketing strategy. With the official Mailchimp for WooCommerce integration, your customers and their purchase data are automatically synced with your Mailchimp account, making it easy to send targeted campaigns, automatically follow up with customers post-purchase, recommend products, recover abandoned carts, and measure the ROI of your marketing efforts. And it’s completely free.
With Mailchimp for WooCommerce, you’ll have the power to:
– Sync audience and purchase data.
– Set up marketing automations to remind customers about items they left in their cart or viewed on your site, win back lapsed customers, and follow up post-purchase. (Now available for free accounts!)
– Showcase product recommendations.
– Track and segment customers based on purchase history and purchase frequency.
– View detailed data on your marketing performance in your Mailchimp Dashboard.
– Find new customers, connect with current ones, and drive them all to your website with Facebook and Instagram ads. Then, set up Google remarketing ads to turn your site visitors into shoppers.
– Automatically embed a pop-up form that converts your website visitors to subscribers.
– Add discount codes created in WooCommerce to your emails and automations with a Promo Code content block
– Create beautiful landing pages that make it easy to highlight your products, promote a sale or giveaway, and grow your audience.

Important Notes

This plugin supports our most powerful API 3.0 features, and is intended for users who have not yet integrated their WooCommerce stores with Mailchimp.
You can run this new integration at the same time as your current WooCommerce integration for Mailchimp. However, data from the older integration will display separately in subscriber profiles, and can’t be used with e-commerce features that require API 3.0.
WordPress.com compatibility is limited to Business tier users only.
At this time, the synchronization of product categories from WooCommerce to Mailchimp is not supported.

Inštalácia

Before You Start

Here are some things to know before you begin this process.
– This plugin requires you to have the WooCommerce plugin already installed and activated in WordPress.
– Your hosting environment must meet WooCommerce’s minimum requirements, including PHP 7.0 or greater.
– We recommend you use this plugin in a staging environment before installing it on production servers. To learn more about staging environments, check out these related WordPress plugins.
– Mailchimp for WooCommerce syncs the customer’s first name, last name, email address, and orders.
– WooCommerce customers who haven’t signed up for marketing emails will appear in the Transactional portion of your audience, and cannot be exported.

Advanced Queue Setup In CLI mode

To optimize the performance of your Mailchimp integration – it is recommended that you run the queue in CLI mode.
First define a constant in your config file
define(‚DISABLE_WP_HTTP_WORKER‘, true);
You have 2 options to run this process:
1. On a cron schedule every minute:
* * * * * /usr/bin/wp –url=http://yourdomain.com –path=/full/path/to/install/ queue listen
2. Using a process manager like Monit or Supervisord:
/usr/bin/wp –url=http://yourdomain.com –path=/full/path/to/install/ queue listen

Optional on-demand queue processing

If you would like to turn off the background queue processing and handle jobs „on-demand“ you can do so by adding a constant in your wp-config.php file:
define(‚MAILCHIMP_DISABLE_QUEUE‘, true);
This is helpful with high CPU usage on small servers by making a call to the admin-ajax file and manually processing a single request at a time.

Multi-site Setups

The Mailchimp for WooCommerce supports WordPress Multi Sites and below are a few things to note.
– Each site that has the plugin installed is a separate connection to Mailchimp.
– Deactivating – disables the plugin from sending data to Mailchimp. Upon reactivating the plugins original setup details will be intact. Deleting is necessary to connect a different Mailchimp Audience with WooCommerce.
– Deleting removes the connection between Mailchimp and WooCommerce, and uninstalls the plugin from your site.
Refer to the WordPress Codex for more information about Multisite Network Administration

Recenzie

The plugin has a "someday feature" that embeds a .js file on the website, the problem with that file is that it's dependent on their server speed, and in some rare cases it causes my visitors to wait even 10-15 seconds before the page loads, on top of that, the "someday feature" js is a 403, but ti'll the headers reply, it won't work and keep some users from loading the website properly.
On top of that, if you try to access support, it says big with black on a yellow background (on their website) support available only for paid accounts.
What's the purpose of this plugin then, if you can't get support for newcomers?

If you pay attention to the plugin requirements you will find no issues with it. I used this in a website without the proper server settings and didn't work, so i used again on more than 5 websites with the minimum requirements and worked like a charm.
Still needs some work, would be great if product categories were also synced.

4 stars for now, if they do suggestion below!
The plugin works and does what it needs to do: synchronize order.
It is true that a lot of work still needs to be done.
A lot is still missing: support custom fields, support variations products / subscribtions and better synchronization.
Hopefully this will be realized this year, then the negative reviews may turn into a top plugin and the use of Mailchimp is also more logical (since there are better automation campaigns)

The popup has problems which are listed here since multiple months.
1. Sometimes users cannot scroll, when the popup is activated on mobile.
2. Sometimes you cannot close the popup.
3. There is no notice, that the plugin loads the popup automatically, if a connection to mailchimp exists. There is no info / settings notice.

Would gladly pay for the plugin, as long as it worked. The "2 recent issues resolved out of 30" is not comforting, not to mention that the problem with API validation has been known and discussed for months - after being introduced intentionally according to the initial response in one of the threads. Hopefully we can see this addressed. Thanks
"Mailchimp says: API Request Error - cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 5001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received"